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International Focus Photo November 12, 2006

Your Turn: The Iran Holocaust Cartoon

On first pass, the cartoon poses Israel, or Israeli held territory, as a death camp for Palestinians (and equates Israel's treatment of the Palestinians with the Nazi's treatment of the Jews).  The rendering, however, can also been seen as more ambiguous than that, making other interpretations possible.

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Bush Focus Photo November 11, 2006

Poppy Leaving The Sidelines?

Although subtle in one way (if you didn't know the relationship between Rumsfeld replacement, Robert Gates and Poppy Bush), it is also is a sly visual editorial on (and slap at) the present Bush regime....  The likely choice was a shot of the Oval Office announcement featuring Bush 43,...

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Campaign '06 Photo November 10, 2006

Advice To Republicans

In analyzing all the media analysis of 11/7, how could The BAG  fail to offer its own two cents of advise to the faded red party.

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Bush Focus Photo November 9, 2006

Giving You The Creeps

With the Administration's trashing on Tuesday, the media acquired not just the license, but the bursting requirement to see these people for who they are.  The result -- and a signifier of the ensuing candor -- are Annie Leibovitz's shots through the fish eye.

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Campaign '06 Photo November 8, 2006

Like History

In October, three weeks before the midterm election, President Bush and Secretary Rumsfeld stuck out their chins at the new U.S. Air Force Memorial in Virginia, approaching what the White House was hoping would be another cakewalk.

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Campaign '06 Photo

Engendering Change

Like America's first woman Speaker of the House of Representatives in this buoyant image, I'm feeling the joy.

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Campaign '06 Photo

It's Called Release

Election Results:  It's Called A Release (Or: <em>What A Difference A Day Makes</em>)

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Campaign '06 Photo November 7, 2006

Election Final: The Parting Shot

This picture, taken in Texas this week, seems more than fitting on a day in which in the country -- in a potential rediscovery of the ballot box -- seems poised to, finally, cut and run from the political abuse of the Bush Administration and the cancerous decrepitutde of...

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Campaign '06 Photo November 6, 2006

The Election Trinket Formerly Known As Saddam

So we have the November surprise -- involving a quasi-kangaroo court dropping a death sentence on Saddam just 48 hours before the U.S. election.  The way Saddam has been exploited like a circus monkey, I find the "trinket" shot clearly the day's best visual commentary.  Realistically though, here's what...

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Campaign '06 Photo November 5, 2006

Campaign Wrap-Up: The "Loathiness" Of The Long Distant Runners

A quick trip across the country offers glimpses of Republicans desperately trying to stay alive after Tuesday. A few have welcomed the president as the shiny hood ornament of their campaigns; most others have decided to go it alone.

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Iraq and Afghanistan War Photo November 3, 2006

Bullet

This is the bullet, a 7.62mm armor-piercing slug, that went through the Kevlar helmet, and then the head of Marine Lance Corporal Colin Smith, 19, wounding him critically. The bloodied hand belongs to Petty Officer Third Class Dustin E. Kirby, 22, a Navy medic assigned to Smith's platoon.

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Campaign '06 Photo November 2, 2006

Hawking A Metaphor

So the cavalry are a bunch of jackals?  For Crissakes, the vultures aren't descending on the buidling, they're the ones who've been running the place for the past umpteen years!

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Religion, Race And The Islamic Bomb: Looking At What We're Talking About

In the last two weeks, the NYT has published two prominent pieces touting the growth prospects of nuclear oblivion.So, what does this have to do with a seven-year-old daughter of a Ukrainian liquidator born with cerebral palsy? The reminder, in the powerful image above by Spanish photographer Lourdes Segade, is...

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Bush Focus Photo November 1, 2006

Your Turn: Bush In Sugar Land

Did the White House confuse Halloween with the Fourth of July?  Or, Shock and Awe? The BAG wasn't planning on another Bush post so soon, but this pic stopped the presses.  I can't wait for your thoughts on this shot from W's Texas campaign trip.

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